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Dorr Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$405k
Granted FY2023
16
Itemized grants FY2023
16
Organizations funded FY2023
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Itemized, FY2023
$332k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2023
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$35,000
States reached, FY2023
5
Total assets, FY2023
$7.3M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site
70% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Environment$194kRecreation & Sports$45kYouth Development$35kFood & Nutrition$20kEducation$15kArts & Culture$10kScience & Tech$10kHuman Services$3kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Brooklyn Boatworks Inc$35,00014%
Hudson River Sloop Clearwater Inc$30,00013%
Buzzards Bay Coalition$30,00010%
Flying Cloud Institute Inc$30,00015%
Center for Coastal Studies Inc$26,98810%
Piers Park Sailing Center Inc$25,00011%
Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc$24,70710%
Greenagers Inc$20,00011%
Billion Oyster Project Inc$20,00010%
Sustenance Research Institute$15,0001n/a
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All grantees of Dorr Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Brooklyn Boatworks Inc$35,00014%
Hudson River Sloop Clearwater Inc$30,00013%
Buzzards Bay Coalition$30,00010%
Flying Cloud Institute Inc$30,00015%
Center for Coastal Studies Inc$26,98810%
Piers Park Sailing Center Inc$25,00011%
Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc$24,70710%
Greenagers Inc$20,00011%
Billion Oyster Project Inc$20,00010%
Sustenance Research Institute$15,0001n/a
Greater Lovell Land Trust Inc$12,00011%
Rufus Porter Museum of Art and Ingenuity$10,00011%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($53k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Dorr Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBrooklyn Boatworks Inc: $35,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetHudson River Sloop Clearwater Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetBuzzards Bay Coalition: $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFlying Cloud Institute Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetCenter for Coastal Studies Inc: $26,988 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPiers Park Sailing Center Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetWoodwell Climate Research Center Inc: $24,707 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGreenagers Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBillion Oyster Project Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGreater Lovell Land Trust Inc: $12,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetRufus Porter Museum of Art and Ingenuity: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC7.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Dorr Foundation

How much does Dorr Foundation give?
Dorr Foundation reported 16 itemized grants totaling $331,695, out of $404,695 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing.
What does Dorr Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2023, its largest causes are Environment (7%), Recreation & Sports (2%), Youth Development (1%).
Who are Dorr Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2023 to FY2023: Brooklyn Boatworks Inc ($35k), Hudson River Sloop Clearwater Inc ($30k), Buzzards Bay Coalition ($30k).
Does Dorr Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Dorr Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Dorr Foundation based?
Dorr Foundation is based in NH.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 16 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $513k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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